You can configure printer drivers to do all sorts of things with your printer.

In modern computer systems, printer drivers tend to be programs in their own right. While on the subject of printer drivers, there is another thing that could be causing problems. If you don't upgrade your printer driver, then you can get different printed results than what you expect. One day, however, someone physically swaps the Fabutek 2750 printer for a newer model: the Fabutek 2950. Let's say that you are used to using a Fabutek 2750 printer, and you have the proper drivers installed for that mythical printer. This may sound odd, but sometimes happens in an office environment where a single printer is shared by multiple users. (See Figure 1.)Ĭareful consideration of these first two potential causes leads to a third potential cause-someone switched your printer. If you examine a document in Print Preview, then display the Print dialog box and choose a different printer before printing, then the output to the printer may be different than what you saw in Print Preview. The printer selected in the Print dialog box controls how information is displayed by Word in Print Preview and when actually printing. If you work in an office that has multiple printers available, and you have multiple printer drivers installed in Windows, you can-in the Print dialog box-select which printer you want to use. The second thing to check is that you are using the same printer for the Print Preview as you are for printing. The best place to find this out is by visiting the Web site for your printer manufacturer and checking to see if they have an updated printer driver available for your version of Windows. The first thing to check is to make sure that you have the latest and greatest printer drivers installed in Windows for your printer. There are many possible causes for this type of problem, so finding a solution may take some trial and error on your part. Patricia wondered what could cause the problem.

Everything looked good in the printout, except that the page breaks were not in the same place as they had been when looking at the document in Print Preview. When it was just right, she would print the document. It seems that she would work with a Word document, and then look at it in Print Preview to make sure everything was exactly the say she wanted. Patricia wrote about a problem she was having with Word.

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